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Wanniyala
Wanniyala is a genus of cellar spiders native to Sri Lanka, first described by Huber & Benjamin in 2005. They have six eyes and four pair of legs and grow up to 2 mm in length. The abdomen is globular and males have a distinctive distal hinged sclerite on the procursus of genitalia. The name is derived from the Sri Lankans native to the island that the first spiders were found on- the Vedda people- and their...
11 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Wanniyala labugama
speciesWanniyala labugama
Wanniyala mapalena
speciesWanniyala mapalena
Wanniyala viharekele
speciesWanniyala viharekele
Wanniyala ohiya
speciesWanniyala ohiya
Wanniyala upekkha
speciesWanniyala upekkha
Wanniyala orientalis
speciesWanniyala orientalis
Wanniyala mudita
speciesWanniyala mudita
Wanniyala batatota
speciesWanniyala batatota
Wanniyala badulla
speciesWanniyala badulla
Wanniyala agrabopath
speciesWanniyala agrabopath
Wanniyala hakgala
speciesWanniyala hakgala
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 421304.